The GOP is looking to focus groups and even more polling (good luck with that) for salvation as it confronts its traditional antipathy to everybody: "Asked about the GOP’s demographic problems, Boehner said: 'What Republicans need to learn is: How do we speak to all Americans? You know, not just the people who look like us and act like us, but how do we speak to all Americans?'"Syria's refugee crisis has intensified as the country's violent civil war takes another violent turn—in the last day alone, 11,000 people fled over the border, most of them to Turkey. Civilians are losing faith in the country's rebels, who continually prove themselves prone to vengeance, wanton property destruction, and tactical and strategic mistakes.